Sandy Victims Still in Hotels By Thousands

By

Josh Dawsey

Updated Feb. 5, 2013 10:14 p.m. ET

Almost 4,000 New York and New Jersey households displaced by superstorm Sandy remain camped in hotel rooms, an effort costing public agencies tens of millions of dollars and fraying the nerves of uprooted families entering a fourth month with no promise of permanent homes.

About 2,800 households stayed in hotel rooms Monday night in New York and New Jersey under a program run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, officials...